Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit
Soyer yesterday (11 September) visited President Mehmet
Ali Talat and presented resignation of the Republican
Turkish Party/United Forces (CTP-BG) and Democratic
Party (DP) Coalition Government.
President Mehmet Ali Talat
speaking during the acceptance of the Government’s
resignation stated that after meeting with all the
political parties represented in the TRNC Parliament, he
would decide on to which political party to give the
duty to form the government.
For his part, Prime Minister
Ferdi Sabit Soyer pointed out that CTP/BG-DP Coalition
Government which was formed after the Presidential
elections last year, worked to perform their duty within
the framework of “settlement and restructuring program”
during their term of duty.
PRESIDENCY: “WE WILL
SUPPORT EVERY KIND OF EFFORT THAT WOULD
HELP TO START THE
COMPREHENSIVE NEGOTIATIONS”
TRNC Presidential
Spokesperson Hasan Ercakica, yesterday issued a written
statement and stressed that the Turkish Cypriot side
would support every kind of effort, which would help
starting the comprehensive negotiations for a
comprehensive settlement including the 8 July commitment.
Ercakica
referring to Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos’
and Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Yorgos Lillikas’
statements appeared in the Greek Cypriot press during
the weekend said they openly stated that they did not
support the efforts for finding a settlement to the
Cyprus issue through negotiations. Continuing Ercakica
said:
“While the Cyprus issue
should be solved through negotiations and the relations
between the two peoples and diplomatic developments in
the region are being negatively affected as a result of
the fact that this process has not been started, the
attitude of the two most authorized persons of the Greek
Cypriot administration could not be accepted.” He said,
preliminary preparations, analysis and research on the
basic parameters of the Cyprus issue, which Papadopoulos
was trying to put as a precondition for the start of the
comprehensive negotiations was aimed at degrading the
Cyprus issue from being a political problem to an
academic problem.
Stating that for long years,
the Cyprus issue has been taken up by the two leaders,
UN representatives and the related parties many times,
Ercakica pointing to the thousand pages UN documents on
this issue, especially the Annan plan said:
“People who want to carry
out an academic study on the Cyprus issue could use
these documents as well as hundreds of articles written
by Turkish Cypriot, Greek Cypriot and foreign
academicians. However, in order to solve the Cyprus
issue, rather than academic studies, there is a need for
a political will and comprehensive negotiations, which
would be carried out with this will. As the Turkish
Cypriot side we are ready to start comprehensive
negotiations and do not need to make any analysis or
research for this.”
